On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > On 2011-07-21, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > >> If we lift up to 1.5 as a minimum what about lifting to compress 2.0? > > Depends on what we want to do. If we want to break BWC by introducing > genrics, then let's do that. I am currently withholding some work I > started to get the permissions stuff straightened because the API would > look quite different with enums.
I am heavily +1 on a good looking, modern API. All the compression implementations are complex enough. I just read you other mail on Compress-18. As I understand it, J5 would give you some more freedom on this one. > On top Java5 would give us a pack200 compressor mor or less for free, > but this could be done without breaking APIs as well. Not sure what you mean - Java 5 is giving it to you for free and with Java 1.4 you need to implement it all yourself? If this is the question I would go for the free version. Java 1.4 is dead and even Java 5 is old. In the past 3 years I have not heard of any comercial project using 1.4.2. Even my financial customer recently decided to upgrade from Java 1.3 (!!) to Java 6 - leaving out Java 1.4 ;-) Cheers Christian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
